These are simple steps to create and configure a vagrant environment using VirtualBox.

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Install Vagrant
3. (optional) Download target box image.
4. Configure Vagrantfile
   • Configure to use the downloaded box image
   • Optionally configure Network and VM Settings
   • Optionally configure provisioner (Chef, Puppet, etc.).
5. Startup Vagrant and Experiment

You can get faster performance if boxes installed from local directory. You can find a bunch of boxes at http://www.vagrantbox.es/.

This is what I do:

$ BOXURL={Your box URL goes here}
$ mkdir ~boxen
$ cd ~boxen
$ curl -O $BOXURL

You can download and install Virtualbox and Vagrant. Personally, I like to use Homebrew and Cask for installation of these pieces.

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
$ brew update
$ brew doctor
$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

Once the package management systems are install, I can install the components.

$ sudo brew cask install virtualbox
$ brew cask install vagrant